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Judicial Commission recommends confirmation of 18 Additional Judges
ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission of Pakistan in its meeting on Saturday recommended confirmation of services of 14 Additional Judges of…
The revolution is uniting Yemen
THE revolution in Yemen began immediately after the fall of Ben Ali in Tunisia on January 14. As I always…
Deir Yassin & the ‘nakba’
THE massacre at Deir Yassin 63 years ago has paled in comparison with greater atrocities against the Palestinian people later.…
Generation Y and the domino effect
AFTER Wael Ghonim’s Egypt began the business of rebuilding for the future, the Middle East was turned into a revolt…
Experts divided over Saif Qadhafi’s motives
ON February 19 Dr Muhammad al-Houni, a Libyan academic and long-time adviser to Colonel Muammar Qadhafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, finished…
Why the West is arming rebels in Libya
AS the crisis in Libya continues to spiral into a dead-end struggle between Qadhafi and his rebels, the world is…
Turmoil in Middle East and Pakistan
WINDS of change are blowing in the Arab West Asia and North Africa. Many commentators have been speculating that the…
Economic and political legacy of Z.A. Bhutto
ON April 4, 1979, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first popularly elected prime minister of Pakistan and the founder of the…
Revisiting relations with the US
ON March 16, the alleged American spy Raymond Davis, who gunned down two Pakistanis, was set free by the trial…
Facing crises: lessons from Japan
NOTHING brings out the character of a nation more clearly than in the way it faces a crisis or catastrophe…
Sorry state of education
DURING his visit to Sindh, President Asif Ali Zardari asked the Sindh government to improve education both qualitatively and quantitatively.…
Flood: relief work in disarray
THE effects of 2010 floods have been devastating and the emergency is not yet over. In Sindh many areas are…
The judiciary and the PPP government
THE recent reports in the media point to another conflict between the judiciary and the Zardari government. In the history…
Why are US Muslims under watch again?
THERE is hardly a dull moment in US politics. It’s like a carousel constantly going around and presenting myriad spectacles…
Advani, Modi and communalism
MORE than a hundred innocent persons were arrested after burning of S-6 bogy of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra railway…
India puts its food security at stake
NOT long ago, a little over 40 years back, farmers would invariably get cheated at the time of the harvest.…
Waiting for revolution: the Middle East miracle
REVOLUTION’ has been perhaps the most overused word in Pakistani political discourse during the past few months, though its meaning…
The law and politics of floor crossing
THE decision of a breakaway faction of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, called the Unification Bloc, to side with the ruling…
Qadhafi refuses to face reality
ONE had only read in history books about Nero fiddling at his flute and singing with joy while Rome burnt.…
National interests and party politics
THE recent break-up between the PPP and the PML of Nawaz Sharif presents a deja vou between the two parties.…
Don’t rock the boat in a stormy ocean
WITH the PPP and PML-N again at daggers drawn, the country seems poised to drift towards another uncharted territory. The…
Global nuclear market: ‘atom for peace’ or war?
SEVENTY years is a short time in human history. However, in case of nuclear technology, from the bombing of Hiroshima…
Corporate factor in Arab ‘revolutions’
SINCE the Greeks deployed their famed wooden Horse against the Trojans, the great god of deception has found for himself…
Not all the news ‘fit’ to report
There is a feeling that Pakistan has suddenly become a territory where every other person is engaged in some kind…
Re-hiring of retired civil servants
ON January 27, while hearing the Haj corruption case (SMC No.24 of 2010), the Supreme Court made a very significant…
Mubarak goes, his system remains
The politics of blasphemy law
HAT started as a case of an unknown citizen of Christian faith, Aasia Bibi, has now gone far beyond the…
Non-equivalence of interest and Riba: nine arguments
NTEREST is popularly defined as “price” of capital or more precisely as return, income, profit or dividend accruing to this…
Political expediency and the economy
THE important question as the ruling party is about to enter its fourth year in office is not whether it…
Rise of armed insurgencies in India
INSURGENCIES do not emerge in a vacuum. Their underlying causes are invariably found in frustrations of the populace, mainly in…
